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£10 million funding for pioneering brain tumour research programmes

Publication date:
21 February 2014

The Samantha Dickson Brain Cancer Unit at
the UCL Cancer Institute is one of three pioneering research programmes to benefit from an unprecedented £10 million in funding. Grants from The Brain Tumour Charity totalling £5million will fund the
research programmes and are being matched by other charitable and public
sources. The milestone investment paves the way to transform the
diagnosis and treatment of both childhood and adult brain tumours, the
biggest cancer killer of people under 40.

Mathematical beauty activates same brain region as great art or music

Publication date:
13 February 2014

People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty.